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In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
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Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be...
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policies on transition rates out of unemployment. We performthe first evaluation of training effects for the unemployed adults … in France, exploiting a uniquelongitudinal dataset from the unemployment insurance system... …
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Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...
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Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …
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Although an inverse relationship between sickness absence and unemployment has beendocumented in a number of studies … whether this empiricalregularity is due to changes in the individual costs of absence when unemployment increases …
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We evaluate a randomized experiment of a statistical support system developed to assistcaseworkers in Swiss employment offices in choosing appropriate active labour marketprogrammes for their unemployed clients. This statistical support system predicted the labourmarket outcome for each...
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In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI … extensions across states to estimate the overall impact of these extensions on unemployment duration, comparing the experience … extensions on unemployment transitions and duration. We rely on individual variation in benefit availability based on the …
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envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …
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selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
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